Tag: interview
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Darren Mottolini: “Not just creating pretty maps that still require interpretation”
Darren Mottolini is a Business Development and Research Manager — WA (Western Australia) at CRCSI (Cooperative Research Council for Spatial Information) Darren has worked in the spatial information sector for over 16 years – working within the private sector, government, and now academia, identifying and enabling businesses to use data and information to meet specific…
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Kristen Grady: “If you’re on the ground, look up, and if you’re in the sky, look down”
Kristen Grady is a GIS Specialist at NYC Emergency Management and has over ten years of experience working in GIS. Prior to working at NYCEM she spent about six years working in academia trying really hard – but eventually failing – to avoid working a 9-5 office job. (Although saving the city from the apocalypse…
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Randal Hale: “80% of hipsters have a spatial component”
Randal Hale runs North River Geographic Systems. He enjoys long walks on the beach, talking about your feelings, and spatial databases. You may find him at your local conference, possibly in a canoe, or on a bike — but not all at once. Randal was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How and why…
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Stephanie May: “If you don’t know what your map is supposed to be telling us, neither do we”
By day, Stephanie specializes in spatial data file formats, transformations, analysis, and geospatial product management. At other times she opines for free on thematic map styles, urbanism, and best practices in geodata. Once upon a time her maps were featured in Atlantic Cities, Gizmodo, Huffington Post, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. She…
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Steven Ramage: “Fitness for purpose is one of my favourite terms”
After a number of years working with internationally-recognised organisations (Navteq, 1Spatial, OGC, and Ordnance Survey (OS)), Steven is now working for what3words, based in London; they’re helping to simply and precisely communicate location using only words. He also consults for OS, the World Bank, and is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities…
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Gretchen Peterson: “Cartography is fundamentally about where things are, not about the technology that displays them”
Gretchen Peterson is a cartography explorer who is constantly on the lookout for new techniques, tricks, and solutions that collectively elevate the status of maps. Peterson shares these adventures in her cartography books, blog, and twitter stream, and also, sometimes, cracks extremely funny nerd jokes. As a Data Scientist at Boundless, Peterson designs basemaps with…
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Steve Coast to GeoHipster: “You try stuff and 90% of it’s gonna fail, and you should be happy with that”
Steve Coast is the founder of Open Street Map and Head of OSM at Telenav. Steve was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev, incorporating question suggestions from Renee Sieber and Christina Boggs. Q: Last week was the 10th anniversary of Open Street Map, which you founded. Congratulations! OSM and you personally got a lot…
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Lyzi Diamond: “Make things. Put them on the internet.”
Lyzi Diamond is a 2014 Code for America Fellow with the city of Lexington, KY. She has spent much of her career in government GIS, but is now tinkering in the land of open source geospatial technologies. She spends her free time organizing geo meetups, writing tutorials, making silly web maps, riding bikes, and playing…
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Interview with Tom MacWright: “If you want to make anything new, you have to ignore some of the rules”
Tom MacWright is a guitarist in Teen Mom and keyboardist at Mapbox. Tom was interviewed for Geohipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into maps/GIS? A long time ago I made the Swem Signal, which basically made my college’s library a little more navigable. Then I started at Development Seed and helped make a lot of…